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Longstanding incumbent and enterprising newcomer battle for Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights
By Sujay Kumar Voters in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights cast their ballots in the general election today and chose whether to mark line E and elect 46-year-old newcomer Mark Winston Griffith, or to go with line A and allow the 74-year-old incumbent, Albert Vann, to reclaim his City Council office.
Continue reading...Bedford Avenue bands rock the marathon
Sunday, November 1, 2009
More than 100 musicians and bands performed along all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon's course, pepping up the runners and providing entertainment for the onlookers. On Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, about 10 groups were set up on the street corners. — Spencer Bailey and Alexander Hotz
Continue reading...New York’s e-waste
Monday, October 19, 2009
By Mahawish Rezvi Electronic waste can be hazardous to the environment because it can contain metals such as lead and mercury. These metal objects are then thrown in regular trash bins in New York and often end up in landfills, creating an environmental nightmare. The city government is tackling this problem by passing a new law, the Electronic Equipment Recycling and Refuse Act, which requires manufacturers to be responsible for disposing of their products sold to consumers.
Continue reading...The life of an outsider moving in
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Brooklyn artist Adam Taye, 35, sits in a plastic yellow chair in his cramped second-floor studio, which overlooks Cortelyou Road, and talks about his life. He drinks a large coffee with a dash of soy milk. Raised in Boise, Idaho, in a Mormon family – “I consider myself a secular Mormon,” he says – Taye went [...]
Continue reading...Kaparot: chicken-swinging for the soul
Monday, October 12, 2009
By Marlow Stern The ritual of kaparot occurs when Orthodox Jews take live chickens, swing them over their heads as a means of transferring their sins onto the chickens, and then have them slaughtered on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Today, kaparot is performed in only Haredi – or Ultra-Orthodox – Jewish communities. In New York City, the largest kaparot ceremony occurs along Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Continue reading...Bushwick bound, new residents living large
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Ryan Slack and Drew Smartt, who live at 550 Irving Plaza Lofts, are part of a next-neighborhood movement of artists, musicians and young professionals coming to Bushwick. While the area continues to maintain its gritty vibe, there are rapidly gentrifying pockets for those priced out of Manhattan and close-by Williamsburg.
Continue reading...The art of selling gentrification … in Bushwick
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Richie Maggio says he’s learned to not only sell apartments but also gentrification. Maggio, a senior project manager for AptsandLofts.com’s rental division, has been a broker of Brooklyn units, many on a high-end scale, for four years. From his office on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, he spends his time marketing new, or renovated, apartments in [...]
Continue reading...Sex and the Slope
Thursday, September 17, 2009
New York media types gathered on Wednesday night at Ochre, a design store in Soho, where publishers Simon & Schuster set up a makeshift bar alongside shelves of expensive home décor. Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts sipped white wine a few feet from Michael Solomon, features editor at Tina Brown’s Daily Beast. Nearby stood [...]
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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